From: Michael Zucchi <notzed@gmail.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: jfs, jfsutils?
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:19:26 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dd69cac-a54c-ca61-0e8a-440a87aab099@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0c2ba522-31a4-c423-bceb-ccd59ae03042@gmail.com>
It's an acronym of Journaled File System. It was written by IBM and has
been in Linux since 2002.
On 12/12/19 9:08 am, Josh wrote:
> Could you catch me up on what "jfs" is?
>
> On 12/11/19 5:31 PM, Michael Zucchi wrote:
>>
>> Morning,
>>
>> I just built a new computer and thought i'd give guix a go but after
>> finally getting everything working to the install stage ... I hit a
>> personal showstopper - no jfs support whatsoever. It's mostly an
>> afterthought on every other distribution but this was a surprise.
>>
>> Any reason for this or is it just that nobody thought of it?
>>
>> Anyway, I just ended up installing slackware-current and have then
>> installed guix atop that, to grab a few packages and to get more
>> familiar with it. I would probably have had to do that anyway as it
>> was probably too much to learn at once but I currently have a lot of
>> spare time to fill, so tried guix first.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Z
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-11 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-11 22:31 jfs, jfsutils? Michael Zucchi
2019-12-11 22:38 ` Josh
2019-12-11 23:49 ` Michael Zucchi [this message]
2019-12-11 23:57 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-12 1:41 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-12 3:18 ` Michael Zucchi
2019-12-13 14:31 ` Joshua Branson
2019-12-13 16:07 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-13 16:23 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-12-14 1:15 ` Michael Zucchi
2019-12-30 23:38 ` Michael Zucchi
2019-12-31 0:42 ` Josh Marshall
2019-12-31 6:26 ` Michael Zucchi
2020-01-05 19:04 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-06 7:20 ` Michael Zucchi
2019-12-13 14:33 ` Packing bcachefs " Joshua Branson
2019-12-13 15:32 ` Packaging bcachefs Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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